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  • If Netanyahu just says nope to Trump’s peace plan, why would he say yes to Biden’s?

    And Reagan didn’t achieve shit - Israel carried on building in the occupied territories regardless, and they only abandoned their war in Lebanon because it was going badly. Reagan did telephone the Israeli prime minister but the Israeli cabinet had already voted to stop the campaign that day, but of course Reagan wanted to take credit for that and announced how stern he was on the phone and the American news outlets of course delighted in fluff pieces praising the president for stopping the war. But that’s all it was. Fluff.

    So, no, your “American president can stop Israeli wars with one phone call” is BS,















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    I for one have an enormous amount of respect for people who ask questions when they don’t know something, and if you always try to find stuff out when you don’t know it, you end up learning a lot. Saying “I don’t understand - please explain” is the sign of an inquisitive and self-aware mind on the route to a better understanding of the world.

    Just because something is easy and obvious for you to understand, doesn’t make it easy and obvious for someone else. We all think differently. Someone on programming.dev might find it obvious that compiled rust would process large xml data much faster than javascript running in node, but sometime on blahaj.zone might find it obvious that disagreeing with someone’s feelings about their gender is deeply harmful, but someone from outside those communities might need to have it explained to them and might need to ask how or why. Asking honest questions and answering them is a good thing in the world and we all get better if we learn from and teach each other.

    Humiliating someone for not knowing something is sometimes the sign of someone insecure enough of their own understanding that they feel the need to gatekeep it. If your excellence is only because you keep other people down, your excellence is vacuous.


  • It’s a seaside town with extreme levels of poverty. There’s very little immigration indeed but it has grown.

    They go for Farage because he gives them a scapegoat and a promise of change, and nothing got much better for them in the last few decades so they don’t see the point of voting for the major parties. It’s a protest vote. Farage the cheating billionaire’s voice found a constituency desperate enough and poorly educated enough to give him a shot.

    BBC have been platforming and legitimising his crap for years and years, giving him more screen time than any other politician in this history of British television and instead of pointing out where he’s factually incorrect (like they used to do decades ago), they just say “Labour disagrees” and he just says “well they would”.